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The Minneapolis-headquartered firm is investing the $220m Clean Growth V, which counts Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System among its investors.

Former IFM Investors CEO Brett Himbury will assume his new position on 1 January following the retirement of outgoing chairman and Stafford co-founder Geoff Norman.

Calvin Marks joins the Pasadena-based firm as it invests its second niche secondaries fund, which closed in August on $213.4m.

The team co-led by Earl Hunt was launched in April with $1bn to deploy and promises of being a ‘category killer’ in the credit secondaries market.

New partners have been created across the law firm’s Boston, New York, Hong Kong, Houston and San Francisco offices.

Dominik Woessner, who was a director in Lazard’s Singapore-based secondary advisory team, joined Thrive Alternatives in May.

If you’re a GP trying to figure out how to hold onto prized assets for longer, chances are you’ve had a call with Evercore’s Nigel Dawn.

The capital solutions group was formed to combine the bank’s GP-led secondaries advisory activity with its efforts to source capital for direct and co-investments.

Marc Fitorre, who had worked at UBS, Evercore and Cebile Capital, died on 13 September.

The rapid growth of the secondaries market has created a war for talent, with the number of job moves increasing by 50% between 2019 and 2020.